Aug/Sept 1999
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Dropping Bombs into Tangled History
The Public Square Dropping Bombs into Tangled History The U.S.-NATO attack on Serbia was a good occasion…
The Idea of Moral Progress
Almost everybody agrees that progress is a good thing. But most self-evidently good things, when examined more…
Review Essay: Preachers Without Poetry
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Michael Warner. Library of America. 939…
A Clash of Orthodoxies
A few years ago, the eminent Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington published in Foreign Affairs a widely…
Pascal: The First Modern Christian
As a way of dividing up history into discrete, manageable wholes, the habit of clustering events according…
Awakening at Littleton
On April 20th, at around 11:30 in the morning, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine…
London Diary
A week in London at the end of May, and a number of things are not quite…
Free to Die
“Manslaughter, I could understand how they would arrive at that. But murder? This? They must have been…
The Condescension of the Christian West
The NATO-led war against Yugoslavia has had repercussions far beyond the bloody killing fields and battlefields of…
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a…
Lewis Remembered
C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections.By John Lawlor.Spence. 132 pp. $22.95. When John Lawlor became a student…
Briefly Noted 158
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris. By Ian Kershaw Norton. 845 pp. $35 Adolf Hitler is arguably the most important…
A Confederate Theodicy
A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South.By Eugene…
Ecorealism
The Virgin and the Dynamo: The Use and Abuse of Religion in Environmental Debates.By Robert Royal.Ethics and…
Preachers Without Poetry
American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.edited by michael warner library of america 939 pp.…
Talking Straight
Homosexuality and American Public Life.Edited by Christopher Wolfe.Introduction by William Kristol.Spence. 320 pp. $29.95 Among activists who…
The Prophet Of Pointlessness
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder.By Richard Dawkins.Houghton Mifflin. 337 pp. $26. In…
The Limits of Theory
The Problematics of Moral and Legal TheoryBy Richard A. Posner.Belknap/Harvard University Press. 320 pp. $29.95 Richard Posner,…
